The following data concerning the Kewanee lodge has been submitted:

Kewanee Lodge, No. 724, B. P. 0. Elks, was organized July 19, 1901, with officers as follows:

Exalted Ruler; J. K...Smiley; .Esteemed Leading Knight, P. A. Waller ; Esteemed Loyal Knight, L. P. Cronau; Esteemed Lecturing Knight, Dr. John H. Mannou ; Secretary, C. J. Lindburg; Treasurer, F. B. Gamble ; Esquire, Russell Neville; Tiler, Guy Page; Chaplain, Will Curtis, Inner Guard, Frank Shults; Trustees, Chas. E. Sturtz, one year; E. D. Lees, two year ; and Thos. McClure, three years. Organist, J. W. Carnes.

The charter membership of twenty-five officers installed was by District Deputy Geo. H. Sampson, of Peoria Lodge, No. 20. The initiatory work was done by Monmouth Lodge No. 397. At present there are two hundred and sixty-five members in good standing. Present officers: Exalted Ruler, I. F. Myers; Esteemed Leading Knight, Geo. R. Parrish ; Esteemed Loyal Knight, Geo. W. Gould; Esteemed Lecturing Knight, Victor R. Griggs; Secretary, A. M. Jacobson; Treasurer, W. 0. Nobiling; Esquire, Wm. C. Ewan, Tiler, W. J. Goempler; Chaplain, Ben C. Parkinson ; Inner Guard, G. D. Swain; Trustees, C. L. Perry, L. Cavanagh, J. Y. Mayhew, S. J. Sharp, and W. T. Pierce; Organist, J. W. Carnes.

The Elks club room is spacious and commodious. It measures one hundred and twenty feet by twenty-eight feet in dimensions and two floors of a building on West Second street are devoted to the requirements of the organization. A cafe, reading. reception and billiard rooms, fully equipped and to the taste of the members are the leading features of the present home of Kewanee lodge of Elks.

The past exalted rulers of the lodge are as follows : J. K. Smiley, Charles E. Sturtz, C. C. Rowley, J. W. Carnes, F. J. Tilton, J. Y. Mayhew, I. F. Myers.

 

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